Victoria - Colonial: 1854-1900.
Delivery envelope: VC-EO-5.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number E.T. - No. 2 (first printed form number on a delivery envelope).
Message area: Addressed to
Electric Telegraph Station at___________.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & envelope): Black on cream.
Size of envelope: 76 × 132 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 

Printed July 1873.		 VC-EO-5.

Campbellfield to Melbourne
22 June 1875.

A rare internal franking of a pair of the 6d blue Laureates tied with a killer 1 of Melbourne. Also redirected to Melbourne.

An extraordinary express delivery item. The telegram had been unpaid and the fee of 1/- due was indicated by the pair of 6d Laureates cancelled at Melbourne.

Reverse side is blank.

Provenance:
Prestige Philately September 2011 Lot 805.
Johnstone.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
EO-5 E.T. No. 2 100,000 7|74 22 June 1875 at Campbellfield. RRR